Fanged Noumena

Collected Writings 1987–2007

Nick Land, Robin Mackay (Urbanomic Media Ltd), Ray Brassier (American University of Beirut)

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Urbanomic
01 April 2011

Philosophy; Religious & theocratic ideologies

A dizzying trip through the mind(s) of the provocative and influential thinker Nick Land.

During the 1990s British philosopher Nick Land's unique work, variously described as ""rabid nihilism,"" ""mad black deleuzianism,"" and ""cybergothic,"" developed perhaps the only rigorous and culturally-engaged escape route out of the malaise of ""continental philosophy"" -a route that was implacably blocked by the academy. However, Land's work has continued to exert an influence, both through the British ""speculative realist"" philosophers who studied with him, and through the many cultural producers-writers, artists, musicians, filmmakers-who have been invigorated by his uncompromising and abrasive philosophical vision. Beginning with Land's early radical rereadings of Heidegger, Nietzsche, Kant and Bataille, the volume collects together the papers, talks and articles of the mid-90s-long the subject of rumour and vague legend (including some work which has never previously appeared in print)-in which Land developed his futuristic theory-fiction of cybercapitalism gone amok; and ends with his enigmatic later writings in which Ballardian fictions, poetics, cryptography, anthropology, grammatology and the occult are smeared into unrecognisable hybrids. Fanged Noumena gives a dizzying perspective on the entire trajectory of this provocative and influential thinker's work, and has introduced his unique voice to a new generation of readers.

By: Nick Land
Introduction by: Robin Mackay (Urbanomic Media Ltd), Ray Brassier (American University of Beirut)
Imprint: Urbanomic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 178mm, Width: 114mm, Spine: 32mm
Weight: 488g
ISBN: 9780955308789
ISBN 10: 095530878X
Pages: 680
Publication Date: 01 April 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Robin Mackay is a philosopher, Director of the UK arts organization Urbanomic, and Associate Researcher at Goldsmiths University of London.

Reviews for Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987–2007

'Theory as cyberpunk fiction: Land's machinic theory-poetry parallelled the digital intensities of 90s jungle, techno and doomcore, anticipating impending human extinction becoming accessible as a dancefloor '- Mark Fisher; 'Land had the most brilliantly seductive and meteoric mind, endlessly imaginative and capable of adopting, inhabiting and discarding any philosophical position. With him-and rightly so-philosophy infected every area of life.'-Simon Critchley